In this video, I'll show you how to perform a basic installation of RHEL 10.
It's just a simple installation where we are only going to have a look at the essential
options.
And that's how you should get started for this course because there's many choices you
need to make that you will learn about later.
So let's go for it.
I'm going to play my virtual machine.
And it starts with the GRUB bootloader.
GRUB is a generic bootloader that you are using to start Linux.
And don't select the option test this media, just go straight for install Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 10.
This is loading a Linux kernel because in order to start Linux, you run Linux.
So you don't run an installer from Windows or whatever.
It is just starting the Linux operating system from the installation disk in order to write
it to the main hard drive in your computer.
Might take a minute until everything is loaded.
So here we see the main installation window in which you need to select your language.
Let's go for English United States.
And next you click continue.
If you have any keyboard specifics here in the upper right corner, you can specify the
keyboard layout that you would like to use.
And I'm okay with English United States, so I'm just clicking continue.
Now we see the installation summary screen.
In the installation summary screen, there's a couple of items that need attention.
First, you need to create a user.
By default, no user will be created.
Well, that's not a smart idea.
We need a user and let's create a user with the name student.
Feel free to call it the user, whatever you want.
As long as you have clicked the option, add administrative privileges to this user account.
In order to get administrator rights to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation, there
are two options.
Either the admin user, and this is how you create an admin user, or you log in as the
root user.
But logging as the root user is considered bad practice.
You shouldn't do that.
Then you need to set a password for the user.
And the cool thing is that you are allowed to set a weak password if you want to.
And that's exactly what I want to.
The installer is warning that this is a weak password, and therefore we need to click done
twice.
So as you can see, now that I have an administrative user, the link to the root account creation
has also disappeared because having an administrative user is good enough.
For security purposes, the root user should be disabled by default.
Next thing you need to check is the installation destination.
So here you can see automatic partitioning is selected, and that is good.
We don't want to worry about partitioning right now, but you need to have a look at
what it wants to do.
It wants to override the NVMe disk that was presented by VMware.
NVMe is a very common interface to provide access to your disk.
You might find other disk types as well, depending on the hardware that you are installing on.
No need to change anything here, but you do need to click done in order to agree that
you are going to override your entire disk.
Then there is a software selection.
By default, you will install server with GUI.
I would advise for learning purposes to use server with GUI.
We are not going to work from the graphical user interface a lot, but it has a big advantage
that you can run multiple terminal windows at the same time, and that's convenient.
If for any reason you don't want to do that, you can also select the minimal install.
Minimal install will give you a console only and no graphical user interface, and that
allows you to install RHEL even if you have limited resources available.
The last option is the network and host name.
As you can see right here, the Ethernet interface is automatically connected, and it will get
an IP address from the VMware integrated DHCP server.
Let's leave it like that.
You should always see this because a virtualization software is always handing out IP addresses
automatically.
I do want to give my machine a host name, so I'm calling it RHCSA1.example.com because
otherwise it will be localhost.localdomain, and that's not so very pretty.
Now let me click Done, and now I'm ready to start the installation.
So I'm going to click Begin Installation, and then we need to wait for a few minutes
until everything has been copied to disk.
All right.
The basic installation is now complete, and then you need to click Reboot the system,
and then it will boot into the freshly installed operating system.
The first time you are booting into the new system, a lot of settings is going to be loaded,
so startup will be a little bit slower than it will be later, and when it is done doing
so, you can see the login prompt.
So the name of the user that you have created shows up here.
Click it and provide the password.
So I'm entering the password, and then we see this option to take a tour on RHEL 10.
Let's not do that.
I'm using skip here.
Next, you can see this message, System not registered.
You might be tempted to register the system.
Don't do that.
That is because registering the system requires internet access.
On the exam, you don't have internet access, and you need a different way to set up your
system.
So do not register.
Just click this window away every single time that it occurs, and that makes you ready to
get started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.